The Certified Data Recovery Professional (CDRP) tests a candidate's fundamental knowledge of data recovery. Candidates must have the skills to successfully recover data from damaged or partially destroyed hard drives, sold state media and removable media. In addition to physical data recovery concepts tested, students must know how to perform logical recovery on common operating systems.

Candidates should be familiar with the following subject areas in order to sit for the CDRP exam:

Logical Recovery of disabled hard drives

Using file format recognition tools

Logical recovery via avoiding BIOS interrupts

Motions that unlock the actuator of a drive

Diagnosing the physical recovery of drives

Comparing pre-recorded sound samples to live drives

Logic board replacements

Single and Multi-Platter Swaps

Head Assembly replacement

P-List and G-List recovery

Addressing SMART values

Dealing with damaged sectors

Reverse scanning

Capturing SID protected folders

Resolving kernel or driver issues with a Linux bootable disk

Head Stack replacement

Working with the Service Area (SA) of a drive

Reviewing data structures with a Hex Editor

Diagnosing "clicking noises"

Mac OS X Data Recovery

Linux Data Recovery

RAID 0 Recovery & RAID 5 Recovery

Vista and Recovery of Shadow Copies

Clearing passwords on a password protected drive

Solid state drive recovery

Firmware issues

Why Certify?
Skilled information assurance professionals are the most important piece in the information security puzzle. Candidates that achieve a certification that requires proficiency beyond book knowledge is a valuable method of differentiating skill levels of information assurance professionals.

Benefits of IACRB certification to the Professional:

Demonstrates theoretical knowledge of information assurance.

Confirms commitment to information assurance profession.

Serves as a differentiator in the highly competitive information security job market.